Mirage: Arcane Warfare

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. I’m genuinely sad that ‘Chivalry with magic’ didn’t excite enough people for Mirage: Arcane Warfare to have an active player base. Despite giving the game away for free for a brief period, the servers for this multiplayer stab n spell ‘em up are…

A quote which stuck with me from GDC was Torn Banner's studio president saying he wanted the magic spells in Mirage: Arcane Warfare [official site] to feel like "throwing bricks at people’s heads" and not like using pixie dust. A significant part of creating that difference will lie in how the Chivalry spiritual successor uses art and animation so I've asked members of the art…

While over at GDC a preview opportunity for Mirage: Arcane Warfare [official site] gave me a chance to check out Chivalry's spiritual successor while ALSO enjoying respite from the Californian warmth (I'm ginger and pale and British – we wilt). The game offers up a very different colour palette and setting than Chivalry's keep-n-countryside but once Torn Banner's president, Steven Piggott, and senior brand manager,…